Jan Heine wrote:
> Ideally, you remove the fork and put it on an alignment table,
> with V blocks. For our Bicycle Quarterly tests, we made a square that is
> clamped on a dummy axle, then aligned with the fork steerer. Scribed
> markings let us read off the fork offset. The problem is aligning the
> square with the steerer axis - easier on older bikes with the fork bend
> near the bottom and very hard on bikes with straight fork blades that
> are "bent" only at the crown.
>
I've got a hinged lever bolted to the wall which connects to the handlebar and which allows me to position a bike on my workbench. This together with a long steel ruler and an anglefinder works well enough for my purposes
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands